Departments / Semiconductor & Embedded Systems
VLSI, FPGA, PCB design, and semiconductor research supporting our hardware-adjacent work.
Analog circuit design — amplifiers, filters, power circuits — the continuous-signal counterpart to digital electronics work.
Analog circuit design · SPICE simulation · Amplifier/filter fundamentals · Lab/testing skills + 1 more
Foundational digital-electronics work — logic design, digital circuit fundamentals — for students building the base skill underneath VLSI/FPGA work.
Digital logic design · Circuit simulation tools · Boolean algebra · Lab/testing skills + 1 more
Verification — proving a chip design actually does what it should before fabrication — a distinct discipline from the design work itself.
Verification fundamentals · Testbench writing · SystemVerilog/UVM basics · Coverage analysis + 1 more
Application-Specific Integrated Circuit design — a step beyond FPGA prototyping, for students interested in chip design specifically targeting fabrication.
Verilog/VHDL · ASIC design flow awareness · Synthesis basics · Timing constraints + 1 more
IoT applied to industrial and manufacturing contexts — sensor networks feeding automation and monitoring systems — studied as a domain application of our hardware-adjacent work.
Industrial IoT protocols awareness · Sensor systems · Data collection pipelines · Documentation + 1 more
A research-track internship tracking semiconductor-industry trends and fundamentals — device physics, fabrication basics, industry landscape — to inform our hardware-adjacent research notes.
Semiconductor fundamentals · Research literature review · Technical writing · Industry-trend tracking + 1 more
Focused PCB (printed-circuit-board) design internship — schematic capture through layout — for our internal prototypes and lab equipment, distinct from the broader Electronics Engineering internship.
PCB design (KiCad/Eagle/Altium) · Schematic capture · Component library management · Design-rule checking + 1 more
Hands-on FPGA development — implementing and testing designs on real programmable hardware — for students who want to move from simulation to working hardware.
Verilog/VHDL · FPGA toolchains (Xilinx/Intel) · Timing analysis basics · Hardware debugging + 1 more
VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) chip-design fundamentals — RTL design, verification basics — for students building real digital-design skill on standard EDA tooling.
Verilog/VHDL · Digital logic design · RTL simulation · Functional verification basics + 1 more